Opinion

The CEO of a major Canadian financial company made one of the biggest interview mistakes bosses can make when questioning candidates for an open position - he asked if the candidate had kids.

A pipeline protest is once again putting the BC NDP government in a political pickle. The energy project in question is the Coastal GasLink natural gas pipeline that will connect to the LNG Canada terminal in Kitimat.

My old brown anorak was practically stiff with dirt, so last week I decided to wash it, adding other dark clothes from the laundry hamper. I turned all pockets inside out and removed tissues as well as crumbled leaves and balls of fluff.

People love to bash CEOs and the millions in compensation they earn. And I’m good with that. While regular Canadians earn an average of about $52,000, each of the top 100 CEOs on the S&P/TSX Composite Index earned an average of $11.

Editor: Rather than calls for revenge and retaliation in response to the killing of Iranian military commander Soleimani, we should call for escalation of another sort entirely.

In a time when some (many?) people are pushing back with how tech companies use their data, I find it interesting that so many people are willing to give ride-hailing companies theirs.

Two things are clear based on BC Assessment's release of the 2020 property assessments. B.C. home values have dropped, especially in Metro Vancouver. BC NDP policies are the major reason why.

It's a brand new year and BC's Medical Services Plan (MSP) premiums are no more. That's great news because MSP premiums were a very unfair tax (or “regressive” as we economists like to say).

My daughter Emily is 21 and has no interest in being a mom right now, possibly ever. Now, that’s disappointing because I desperately want to be a grandfather so I can spoil the crap out of some grandkids, but I respect her decision.

2019 has seen some interesting turns in relation to Indigenous issues locally and nationally. Provincially, B.C. has led the way in Canada through the passage of Bill 41, the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act. B.C.